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Thai police seize nearly 200 pangolins

By AFP

Posted:
09/17/2013 02:43:50 PM MDT

Thai police seize nearly 200 pangolins

Handout picture released by the World Widelife Fund.The drivers fled the scene, abandoning their vehicles, Udon Thani police chief Boonlue Kobangyang said.The animals are believed to have been destined for China or Vietnam, via Laos. They will be returned to a nearby Thai national park where they are thought to have been captured.Trade in pangolins is banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).The small mammals are nearly entirely covered with scales, made of keratin -- the ...